Joshmohr:
Ive decided to ask- What is the most insane fantasy or 40k army you have seen? For me, it would have to be a guy using foam blocks covered in sprues to play as a necron monolith (Borg inspired, I’d assume.) I just thought that that really stuck out, and the way he made it was just too cool, and a great money saver. Feel free to post a few links, or just tell us about it. :cheers
Thommy H:
vulcanologist:
Ha ha at first glance thought it was elmo space marines!
dncswlf:
bwahahaha, that definitely is Elmo in the middle there!!!
Alfract:
Waargh’s Cubes of Tzeentch
Tzeentch daemon army made entirely out of variously sized and positioned styrofoam squares in reference to Greenbergian notions of abstraction - Caused quite an uproar within the community as to whether is was modeling or proxying taken too far. 
cornixt:
Cheapest army ever. Certainly weird enough for Tzeentch. I think I’ve still got a load of 2-inch cubes that I got when i was unpacking stuff at work…
nitroglysarine:
Still its fun to see odd ideas, but it does kinda suck that some people spend hundreds on an army, and that one cost say £5.00 for the paint and bases??
Grimstonefire:
Looks like a cheese army to me… Which is perhaps fitting for mono Tzeentch 
Zuh-Khinie:
I once had a mate playing against a guy who brought every warhammer codex with him…
He had a huge box with him filled with LEGOmen, and he said that we could choose which army they were going to represent.
zobo1942:
LEGOhammer? That’s… inspired!
tjub:
I wouldnt play against any of these armies…
Thommy H:
Not even the Blood Letters?
Da Crusha:
I wouldnt play against any of these armies...The thing I hate the most about armies like this is having to play against them at tournaments. and then seeing them get a bunch of points for creativity and crap like that... not sure about the BLOOD army though.
tjub
nitroglysarine:
If that’s allowed, id be tempted to put laminated tags on round/square bases and write ‘I am a Bloodthirster - roar!’ etc…
Ishkur Cinderhat:
That’s odd, I thought that especially at the tournaments only actual GW products were allowed. But that may only be true for the Grand Tournaments.
Da Crusha:
Im actually talking about a grand tournament. its the second largest Warhammer tournament in the U.S.
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Thommy H:
As long as some kind of effort and thought has gone into an army, I’ll play against it. The Blood Letters and even the polystyrene cubes at least show a certain creativity - the Blood Letters are funny, and the idea for the Tzeentch cubes is actually sound. There’s a continuum: from conversions, to using themed models (i.e. my spectral Bretonnian knights as Black Knights), to stuff like this, to blatant proxying and then just using blank bases or paper footprints of the right size for units. It’s not about WYSIWYG or using the “right” models - it’s where you personally set the threshold of acceptability.
I think there’s a massive grey area: why are the Blood Letters worse than Hello Kitty Sisters of Battle? Is one better just because it uses “real” figures? I think that cuts a little close to the concept of the hobby having an “entry fee”, which should be anathema to all right-thinking hobbyists. As long as it’s clever, as long as some thought or passion went into it, no one should have any cause to complain. I don’t care if you have cardboard tanks or a toy rhino for your scratch-built Scrap Launcher, as long as you have some sort of affinity for what you’re bringing to the table, it’s fine.
nitroglysarine:
What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG). If a model is armed with an item, it must be shown on the figure. Models for army list choices that are not available must be converted. If you are in any way in doubt about whether your conversion or scratch built piece might not be acceptable please call us before the tournament. We don't want someone to show up with something they can't use!In that case some of the above wouldn't make the cut. I don't see weapons on the 'blood' demons?
You may use non-Games Workshop models in this tournament.
Thommy H:
Yes. WYSIWYG only makes sense when a model has an option. Bloodletters always have Hellblades, so anything that is demonstrably a Bloodletter has a Hellblade. There isn’t a way to field the unit without it having that weapon. Similarly, if I modelled a Space Marine holding a knife, with his bolter on the floor, magazine cut away as if he’d run out of ammo and was resorting to hand to hand, no one could argue that he couldn’t shoot - he’s a Space Marine, and he has a boltgun: all I’ve done is some creative modelling. Some of my Battle Pilgrims in my Bretonnian army don’t have shields, but they get the same save as everyone else because there’s no way for Battle Pilgrims to not have shields. I’ve just chosen to make the unit look a bit more rag tag.
nitroglysarine:
I get that point Tommy, makes perfect sense.
My problem is that making a proxy is a bit of fun, but surely a line has to be drawn (within GW games tournaments) at the point where is gets silly. Granted i’m not really sure where that should be called. EG: I have a fair units eg, militia that half of them have two handed weapons but they are fielded as 2-hand weapons.That’s fair enough i’d say 99% of the time.
But would that be ok to paint them up without arms or legs with just torso and heads? Surely there is an obligation to make the model at least look like they would ‘normally’ be equipped in the listed way, conversion and variation is fine, but if the marine, for example doesn’t have arms or a bolter then that should be a problem?
Don’t get me wrong i’d play the armies pictured above but it would kinda suck that i’d have spent hundred on my army, and the other guy would have spent next to nothing.